# Best Soda/Pop That Isn't Made Anymore **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 28, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550 "2004-04-28T19:57:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/41 "2004-04-29T08:28:27Z")
> [@usar\_jag](#): > > I have to give props to OK Cola. It was a funky combination of cola, orange and Dr. Pepper-esque favor. Very unique, and I miss it… Sounds like a “suicide” – that’s what we kids called it when we went to a fountain drink dispenser and put a little bit of each kind of soda in our cup. Pretty daring name for a concoction that didn’t even have any alcohol in it! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/42 "2004-04-29T09:41:51Z")
Apple Slice. Yes, that’s right, an apple flavored soda. Damn tasty. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/43 "2004-04-29T11:22:31Z")
Fresca is available around here (York County, VA). I like it, too. I’ve never even heard of 7-Up Gold. Was it like ginger ale? I don’t have any long-gone childhood soda favorites – we almost never had soda when I was a kid. When I was a teenager we lived near a Pop Shoppe and my mom bought soda there. My favorite was the Lime Rickey. I _loved_ Ruby Red Squirt when it came out a few years ago, but I haven’t seen it around lately. It was yummy. And, when I was statioend in Sicily in the '80s, I used to buy Fanta Orangada… Lovely, lovely stuff – a pale, sourish orange soda with pulp in it. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/44 "2004-04-29T11:43:55Z")
When I was young, there was a discount pop store called Towne Club. We went there because my parents were cheap, but I remember taking great delight in going from stock to stock, mixing and matching the flavors. What I really liked was the sasparilla. Tasted like those little root beer candies. You can get Faygo Red Pop here as well. Diet too. That mixed with sugar free vanilla ice cream is this diabetic’s personal nirvana. Oh, and my son, who doesn’t like much in the way of pop, loved Surge ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/45 "2004-04-29T11:47:02Z")
I remember apple soda. You can still get apple-flavored soda in largely-Hispanic areas. Look in Mexican grocery stores. **Jess** , 7-Up Gold was a mixture of 7-Up and ginger ale. I had it once when I was sick and it was really good. For anyone looking for Canfield’s chocolate soda, it’s still on shelves. My local grocery store keeps a six-pack or two on the shelf, but you’ve got to look for it. If it’s not with the Coke and Pepsi products, look with the specialty drinks. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Elret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Elret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elret)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/46 "2004-04-29T11:50:35Z")
One more vote here for New York Seltzer. The one I would really love to find, though, is Strawberry C-Plus. I haven’t seen that in years. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/47 "2004-04-29T11:58:07Z")
OK was my favorite too. Not only for the unique flavor, but for the cool looking cans and bottle labels. Now I drink Moxie. It’s available in many places here in New England, but if I travel anywhere I have to bring it with me. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/48 "2004-04-29T12:59:00Z")
RC Cola (Royal Crown)… mmmm… RC Cola… ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/49 "2004-04-29T13:01:46Z")
**Kickapoo Joy Juice.** It was a yellow citrus flavored soda somewhat similar to **Sundrop Golden Cola**. I haven’t seen either since my childhood in the mid-60’s. **Kickapoo Joy Juice** was named after the korn likker from _L’il Abner_ and the cartons were decorated with images of the characters from that strip. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/50 "2004-04-29T13:21:05Z")
> [@DougC](#): > > - > - > - _All of them_. All the ones that used to have real sugar and lots of caffiene in them. > > * * * > > -I did read online somewhere that apparently, Coca-Cola in Mexico is still made with real sugar–and there is a growing market in the US of transplanted Mexicans who pay higher prices for the imported stuff… > ~ Just head a bit north, Doug. Canadian Coke (and probably other pops too) is still made with sugar. I have some here, which MsRobyn brought for me from a dopefest in Montreal last summer. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/51 "2004-04-29T13:56:04Z")
[QUOTE= Canadian Coke is still made with sugar.[/QUOTE] That’s it, we’re invading. Resistance is futile, etc., etc., etc. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/52 "2004-04-29T13:56:51Z")
My local Wal-Mart sells Fresca. Good thing, too, because I drink about four twelve-pakcs of the stuff per week. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/53 "2004-04-29T14:00:12Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] > [@Canadian Coke is still made with sugar.\[/QUOTE](#): > > That’s it, we’re invading. > Resistance is futile, etc., etc., etc. Go right ahead. I live in Maryland now. 😃 Although if you can’t code, how are you gonna take over a country? Bring some Humpty Dumpty party mix back for me, kay? ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/54 "2004-04-29T14:39:07Z")
Well, I wouldn’t say it’s the best, but New Coke was pretty good. Tasted a lot like Pepsi. Since I’m a Pepsi drinker, and can barely gag Coke down, that was a good thing. I remember quite distinctly, BTW, that Pepsi’s taste in the 50s was considerably different in the 50s from what it is today. It had a bit of a bite. I think it was probably due to cheaper ingredients, as I’ve had a couple of fly-by-night colas since that have somewhat the same taste. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/55 "2004-04-29T16:18:52Z")
Another vote for New York Seltzer. Man I miss that stuff. I drank gallons upon gallons of the peach, raspberry & Vanilla flavors. Mmmmmm. I do not know if Snapple still makes soda, but I used to lover their Peach Melba, Cherry Lime Rickey and (clear) Root Beer. And Ruby Red Squirt - looooved it. Especially the 16oz bottles. Don’t ask me why, but it always seemed to taste different in the 2-liter bottles. For a while after the 16oz bottles disappeared from my local convenience stores I could still find 2-liters in the supermarket, but haven’t seen any for ages. ☹ If anyone out there knows the status of Ruby Red Squirt, 'fess up! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/56 "2004-04-29T16:24:10Z")
> [@kelly5078](#): > > New Coke was pretty good. I found a taste in Pepsi and New Coke that I can only describe as the smell of a newly sharpened pencil. I had a case in the house when a telephone survey guy asked me why I bought New Coke. “I needed something to mix with rum.” ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/57 "2004-04-29T16:48:37Z")
Last summer I picked up a liter of Sprite in a rinky-dink deli in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. I was unprepared for the experience. When I took my first sip, I was immediately blasted back to my childhood in the '70s. They seem to be using the original recipe that I remember as a child (real sugar and more lime), so it was definitely interesting. Funny thing is, I didn’t notice such a difference in their Coke. They have a local soda called “Minerinho” that tastes like a close cousin to root beer. Years ago, my mother-in-law brought along several liters of the stuff for my wife when she came to the States for a visit. Oh yes, another vote for New York Seltzer. Miss that. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/58 "2004-04-29T17:33:26Z")
I used to get some stuff called “Budwine” now and then in Athens GA, a red soda that wasn’t sticky-sweet like cherry soda and wasn’t really quite like anything else I’ve ever tasted. It wasn’t my favorite but it was definitely on my list of “sodas I like now and then”. I’m pretty sure they went out of business. ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/59 "2004-04-29T19:00:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Birch Beer is available in St Louis. Don’t know if it is any good though, since I have never tried it. - - - There’s some brand of this that turns up now and then around St Louis–some years back I worked at a convenience store and we got some in and tried it. There are four different flavors, they come in six-packs of little glass mini-longneck bottles (with _pry-off tops!_) (10 oz? 9 oz? -less than a normal can, to be sure) and there was cherry juliep, birch beer, sasparilla and the fourth one I can’t remember now. The bottler’s address was in Kentucky or Tennesee or somewhere like that, I thinks. I remember these tasted pretty good, but cost a bit much considering the sub-sized bottles. One of these little bottles cost more than a regular can of Coke or Pepsi, but held quite a bit less. Good stuff though if you can find it. ~ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550/60 "2004-04-29T19:28:30Z")
Would someone _please_ tell me why in the hell Snapple stopped making soda? Why discontinue the product line that gave the company its name? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soda-pop-that-isnt-made-anymore/242550.md?page=4)